Support.



G. W. NIEBLING.

SUPPORT. 1 APPLICATION FILED 111111.30, 1911.

1 1,014,021, Patented Ja11.9,1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. NIEBLING, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNO'R OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN J. CONNELL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9,1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. NIEBLING, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Supports, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to supports, being particularly designed for suspending garment patterns, although it is applicable for various uses in which a number of different articles are to be suspended or supported.

.An object of the invention is to provide a construction which will permit the removal of any one article from the support without removing the other articles.

To this and other ends the invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of one embodiment of this invention; Fig. 2 is a front end view; Fig. 3 is a section on line aa of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a section on line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the invention, there is employed a bracket comprising preferably an arm 1 having depending portions 2 and 3 formed respectively at the inner and the outer end of said arm, an attaching means such as a plate 4 being also provided at the inner end for securing the arm to a suitable support 5.

Arranged on the bracket is a pair of supporting arms 6 and 7 extending one toward the other and each preferably pivoted to one of the depending portions 2 and 3 on the supporting arm 1. Pivoted connection between each arm 6 and 7 is preferably formed by an integral or rigid upwardly extending pivot 8 of the arm turning in an upright bearing sleeve 9 on the bracket and held therein by a screw 10 passing loosely through the upper end of the sleeve and having screw threaded engagement with the upper end of the pivot 8.

To hold the outer or free ends of the arms in such cooperative relation that an article 25 suspended on one may be transferred freely to the other, there may be employed for each arm a spring 11 preferably in the form of a helix or coil arranged about the pivot 8 within an annular pocket 12 formed and this is undesirable. To efiect the closing under conditions where a great deal of friction is imposed on the pivots, each arm may carry a surface 16 surrounding its pivots and cooperating with the surface 17 on the lower end of the sleeve 9, said surfaces being inclined to the horizontal so as to cause the outer end of the arm 6 or 7 to swing in an inclined place to a lower horizontal plane on its closing movement, thus causing a weight placed on the arm to effect the closing movement of said arm. This result is preferably obtained by inclining the axis of turning of each arm slightly to the vertical and, as the arms close by movements in opposite directions, the axes of turning of said arms are inclined in opposite directions as will be seen clearly by referring to Fig. 2 of the drawing.

With the end in view of limiting the opening and the closing movement of each arm 6 and 7 there may be provided on the bracket, in proximity to the inner end of each arm, a stop 18 with the opposite sides of which cooperate stops 19 and 20 formed on the arm, the stop 19 defining the closed position of the arm and the stop 20 defining the limit of the opening movement.

The free ends of the arm may overlap each other for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of an article from one arm to the other. In this instance, the overlapping is effected by beveling the ends at 21. It is 100 also desirable to cause said ends to interlock in order to maintain their proper cooperation, and, to this end one of the beveled faces 21 is provided with rib or tongue 22 which fits within a groove 23 of the other beveled 105 accidentally removed from the arms when 110 the latter are separated. A shoulder 24; may be arranged near the inner ends of the arms to prevent the articles 25 moving to such a position that the articles will interfere with the swinging of the arms.

In the use of the invention one or more devices 25 of any particular type is placed upon the supporting members (3 and 7 by separating the latter as shown in Fig. 1. If, now, it is desired to remove one of said devices without removing the others, some of the devices are placed upon the arm 6, the one to be removed being located outermost on one of said arms, so that, when the arms are separated at their cooperating ends, the article desired may be removed without removing the other articles. After this has been accomplished, the arms move automatically into cooperative relation under the action of the springs and the weight of the articles on the arm. WVhen the arms are separated the inclined portions prevent the articles being moved accidentally off the ends.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A support comprising a pair of substantially straight arms extending one toward the other substantially in alinement into cooperation at their free ends, one of said arms being mounted to swing in but a single plane into and out of cooperation with the other.

2. A support comprising a pair of substantially straight arms extending one toward the other substantially in alinement into cooperation at their free ends, one of said arms being mounted to swing only about an upright axis into and out of cooperation with the other.

3. A support comprising a pair of substantially straight arms extending one toward the other substantially in alinement into cooperation at their free ends, one of said arms being mounted to swing in but one plane into and out of cooperation with the other arm, and the free ends of said arms having interlocking portions.

4. A support comprising a pair of substantially straight arms extending one toward the other substantially in alinement into cooperation at their free ends, one of said arms being mounted to swing in but one plane and the free ends of the arms having overlapping portions.

5. A support comprising two substantially straight arms extending one toward the other substantially in alinement, one of said arms being mounted to swing relatively to the other, and the arms being inclined upwardly from their inner ends toward the1r free ends.

6. A support comprising two substantially straight arms extending one toward the other cooperating at their free ends and mounted to swing in opposite directions, and stops limiting the swinging movement of each of said arms in two directions.

7. A support comprising two substantially straight swinging arms extending one toward the other cooperating at their free ends and inclined from their inner ends to their free ends.

8. A support comprising a pair of substantially straight supporting arms extending one toward the other substantially in alinement and cooperating at their free ends, each arm being confined to swing about an upright axis in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the other arm.

9. A support comprising two arms extending one toward the other into cooperation at their free ends and mounted to turn about upright axes, the axis of one arm being inclined to the vertical in a direction opposite to the inclination of the other axis.

10. The combination with a bracket arm having attaching means at one end, of a pair of supporting members extending toward each other from opposite ends of the arm, the free ends of said members having 00- operating portions and one of said arms being movable to separate the free ends.

11. The combination with a bracket arm having attaching means at one end, of a pair of swinging supporting arms, one extending from the inner end of the bracket and the other extending from the outer end of the brscilcket and both cooperating at their free en s.

12. The combination with a bracket arm having depending portions at its inner and its outer end, of a pair of supporting arms extending from said depending portions and cooperating at their free ends, one of said arms being mounted to swing out of-cooperation with the other.

13. The combination with a bracket arm having an attaching plate at one end and depending portions at the inner and the outer end of the bracket arm, of a pair of arms mounted to swing on said depending portions and cooperating at their free ends.

14. The combination with a bracket arm having an attaching plate at one end and depending portions at the inner and the outer end, of a pair of arms mounted to swing about upright axes on said depending portions, the free ends of said arms having cooperating beveled faces and a tongue and groove connection.

15. The combination with a bracket arm having attaching means at one end and depending portions at opposite ends, each provided with an upright bearing sleeve, the bearing sleeves being oppositely inclined to the vertical, of supporting arms each having a bearing turning in one of the bearing sleeves, said arms extending one toward the other and cooperating at their free ends.

16. The combination with a pair of substantially straight and oppositely swinging supporting arms cooperating at their free ends, of springs acting on said arms to move their free ends in cooperative relation from any positions of said arms away from their cooperating positions.

17. The combination with a bracket arm having an attaching plate at one end and depending portions at its inner and its outer end provided with bearing sleeves inclined in opposite directions to the vertical, of supporting arms having rigid pivot pins extending upwardly therefrom and turning in the bearing sleeves, said arms interlocking at their free ends, and coil springs surrounding the pivot pins and tending to hold the free ends of the arms interlocked.

GEORGE W. NIEBLING. Witnesses:

A. M. WHITMORE, H. H. SIMMs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

